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Lalita Ramakrishnan
Lalita Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born physician-scientist, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Cambridge, known for pioneering the zebrafish model of tuberculosis and winning the 2024 Robert Koch Prize.
Lalita Sahasranama (ललिता सहस्रनाम)
Lalita Sahasranama (ललिता सहस्रनाम), also called Lalitha Sahasranamam, is the hymn of 1,000 names of goddess Lalita Tripurasundari in the Brahmanda Purana's Lalitopakhyana, taught by Hayagriva to Agastya; 182.5 anushṭubh stanzas, no repeated names, central Sri Vidya text, chief commentary Bhaskararaya's Saubhagyabhaskara.
Lalitaditya Muktapida
Lalitaditya Muktapida (ललितादित्य मुक्तापीड) was a king of the Karkota dynasty of Kashmir who reigned from about 724 to 761 CE and made Kashmir India's most powerful empire since the Guptas.
Lalitamadhava
Lalitamadhava (Lalita-madhava, ललितमाधव) is a Sanskrit drama by Rupa Gosvami, written in sixteenth-century Vraja, that depicts Krishna's pastimes in Dvaraka rather than his boyhood in Vrindavana.
Lalitavistara
The Lalitavistara is a Sanskrit Mahayana sutra narrating the life of Gautama Buddha from his descent from Tuṣita heaven to his first sermon, known for Borobudur's reliefs.
Lalitha (ലളിത) (actress)
Lalitha (ലളിത), 1930-1982, eldest of the Travancore Sisters with Padmini and Ragini, was a Kerala-born dancer and film actress in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Sinhala; distinct from KPAC Lalitha.
Lalithambika Antharjanam
Lalithambika Antharjanam (ലളിതാംബിക അന്തർജ്ജനം; 1909–1987) was an Indian author and social reformer who wrote in Malayalam, best known for her novel Agnisakshi, which won the 1977 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award.
Lalitpur power project
The Lalitpur power project is a 1,980 MW coal-fired power station at Mahroni tehsil in Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India, owned by Bajaj Group company LPGCL.
Lalitpur, India
Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India (ललितपुर ज़िला), a Bundelkhand district named after its headquarters town; 5,039 sq km, 1,221,592 people (2011), separate from Jhansi district since 1974, bounded by the Betwa, Jamni, and Dhasan rivers.
Lalji Verma
Lalji Verma is an Indian Samajwadi Party politician who serves in the Lok Sabha for Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, and was a minister in the Mayawati government.
Lalkar
Lalkar (ललकार, The Challenge) is a 1972 Hindi World War II film directed, produced, and written by Ramanand Sagar from his own novel, starring Dharmendra, Rajendra Kumar, and Mala Sinha, with music by Kalyanji-Anandji, released 23 May 1972.
Lalla
Lalla (लल्ल) was an eighth-century Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer of the Lata region in Gujarat, known for the Shishyadhivriddhidatantra and the Jyotisharatnakosha, the earliest Sanskrit work on auspicious times.
Lalla Fatma N'Soumer
Lalla Fatma N'Soumer (c. 1830–1863) was a Kabyle religious leader who organized and led the principal armed resistance to the French conquest of Greater Kabylia from 1851 until her capture in 1857.
Lalla Lamia Al Solh (لامية السلح)
Lalla Lamia Al Solh (لامية السلح), Lebanese-born Moroccan princess, daughter of Riad Al Solh; wife of Prince Moulay Abdallah (married November 1961); president of OAPAM for the blind in Morocco since 1967.
Lalla Ward
Lalla Ward (Sarah Jill Ward, born 1951), British actress, played Romana II opposite Tom Baker in Doctor Who (1979-1981), later married Richard Dawkins, and voices Romana in Big Finish audio dramas.
Lalla-Khadîdja
Lalla-Khadîdja (لالة خديجة, Kabyle Tamgut) is a 2,308 m limestone peak in Bouira Province, Algeria, the highest summit of the Djurdjura Range and the Tell Atlas, with 1,720 m prominence and an August pilgrimage tradition.
Lallans movement
The Lallans movement was a twentieth-century Scottish literary effort, led by Hugh MacDiarmid, to revive Scots by creating a synthetic standard literary variety called Lallans.
Lallemand Fjord
Lallemand Fjord, the largest embayment on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula (66°50′–67°20′S), named by Charcot's 1909 expedition for Charles Lallemand; hosts the Müller Ice Shelf and a key Holocene paleoclimate sediment record showing deglaciation before 8000 yr BP, a mid-Holocene optimum, and a Little Ice Age ice shelf advance.
Lallianzuala Chhangte
Lallianzuala Chhangte (born 1997, Lunglei, Mizoram) is an Indian left-footed winger for Mumbai City FC and India; two-time AIFF Player of the Year, ISL Shield and Cup winner.
Lallit Anand
Lallit Anand is a mechanical engineer who works in solid mechanics, holding the Rohsenow Professorship at MIT since 2009 and known for constitutive theories of plasticity at large deformations.
Lallup labor system
The Lallup labor system was Manipur's corvee obligation, requiring every man aged 17 to 60 to serve the king ten days in forty until its abolition in 1892.
Lalo Ebratt
Lalo Ebratt is the stage name of Eduardo Mario Ebratt Troncoso, a Colombian reggaeton and trap singer born in Santa Marta who broke out in 2018 with "Mocca".
Lalo Salamanca
Lalo Salamanca (Eduardo "Lalo" Salamanca, alias Jorge De Guzman) is the Salamanca cartel antagonist of Better Call Saul seasons 4-6, played by Tony Dalton; planted by a Breaking Bad name drop, killed by Gus Fring.
Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin (Boris Claudio Schifrin, 1932–2025), Argentine-American composer and jazz pianist; wrote the 5/4 Mission: Impossible theme, scored Bullitt, Dirty Harry, Enter the Dragon, and Rush Hour; honorary Oscar 2018.
Lalohonua Corona
Lalohonua Corona, formerly Yaroslavna Patera, is a 460 km wide corona on Venus at 24°S, 250.5°E, IAU-named in 2000 for the first woman in Hawaiian mythology.
Lalon Shah
Lalon Shah (লালন শাহ), also known as Lalon Fakir, was a Bengali mystic minstrel saint and composer of thousands of songs rejecting caste and religious division; he died in 1890.
Lalonquette
Lalonquette (Arribèra deus Gleisiars) is a large Gallo-Roman villa in the Gabas valley, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, occupied from the early 1st to the early 5th century, with mosaics, a livestock-based economy, excavated 1958–1972 and 2002–2005, and displayed at the Claracq-Lalonquette museum.
Lalor Mine
The Lalor Mine is an underground zinc, copper, and gold mine near Snow Lake, Manitoba, operated by Hudbay Minerals on a deposit it discovered in 2007; production began in 2012.
LALR parser
An LALR parser, or Look-Ahead LR parser, is a bottom-up shift-reduce parser that reads input left to right with one token of lookahead; yacc and GNU Bison generate LALR(1) parsers.
Lalrinpuii
Lalrinpuii is an Indian politician from Mizoram, a Zoram People's Movement member elected from Lunglei East in 2023 who became the first Mizo woman cabinet minister.